New Product Announcements

Collector's Assistant Plus (Version 6) - Version 6.0 of the Collector's Assistant will release on Monday, August 29th. It contains many new features and user interface enhancements. We are now accepting pre-orders for the version 6 upgrade. All pre-orders are expected to ship within 10 days of the August 29th release. The following links will enable you to pre-order and view information on V6 enhancements. Note - Version 6.0 is data compatible with version 5.0 and does not perform a data conversion unless you are running earlier versions such as Collector's Assistant 2000.

Note to recent purchasors: If you have purchased Version 5 on or after June 1, 2005 you are entitled to a free upgrade to version 6 which will be provided as an Internet download. Registered purchasors from June 1 to August 29, 2005 will receive an e-mail with upgrade information upon the release. If you qualify but have not yet registered you may do so at the Technical Support area of the Carlisle Development website.

Some Version 6 Stuff !!!!!

PDA Support - With the release of Version 6 as well as completion of database updates, our development attention has now focused on the PDA versions of our product line. Version 6 already incorporates the functionality to synchronize with the PDA versions when they become available. A schedule of product releases on the PDA platform as well as functionality of the PDA versions will be described in our Fall newsletter.

Tips & Techniques--

Changing the order of items in your collection listings (Sorting) - The order in which items are displayed in the Collection Listing Grid (used for viewing, printing and exporting your collection data) may be changed at any time.

The primary controls for defining the order in which items are displayed are the dropdown choice lists located in the lower left corner of the Collector's Assistant. The main sort is labeled Sort By and determines the first information field used to sort your collection. Below the Sort By dropdown is an option button which determines whether the sort is ascending (A to Z) or descending (Z-A). Below the option button are 4 more sort choice lists which can be used to accomplish up to a 5-level sort of your listing.

Once set, the sort controls are remembered individually for each collection name until modified again.

If you only need a 1-level sort (use only one information field to specify sort order) you may also set the sort by clicking on the column heading of the desired information field within the Collection Listing Grid. This will sort by the selected column. If you click the column heading again, the sort will switch between ascending and descending.

To See the complete listing of version 6 enhancements:

http://www.carlisledevelopment.com/version6_features.htm

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Pre-Order Special Pricing: $44.95 . Once released, the price will return to $49.95.

Again, for all customers that purchase on or after June 1st are entitled to the free upgrade.

SERVICE Packs: All customers, no matter when the program was purchaed, are entitled to download the Service Packs free. At this time, we are at Service Pack 12. If you have not downloaded service pack 12, you may do so at anytime from the main Carlisle development website:

http://www.carlisledevelopment.com/services.htm

As always, please feel free to email me with any questions.